RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 12:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:Just free to determine whether they believe the OT stories are allegorical or literal.Which is, again, no problem for me. Though it can become a problem for those who believe in a literal OT (which catholics are "free" to do do).And when I say free I just mean they can do so without going against Church teaching.
Quote:Yes. If we believe God is perfect then it would logically follow that He has never done anything wrong, ragardless of whether someone believes in the literal OT or not.Then explain the morality of either the allegorical or literal OT. Explain the good defined by god in the act of slaughtering children, or commanding genocide? The OT god did those things -literally or allegorically- and he has never done anything wrong. Which seems, to me, to put us at an impasse.
I think that slaughtering children and commanding genocide are wrong regardless of who does it and that no amount of allegory will make the slaughterers side the moral one (and I think this same thing about the crucifixion of christ)
-this is my moral truth. Do you not agree that this is a moral truth?
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